48 OEIOLID^ OEIOLUS 



berries, from the leaves and branches of trees. All the species have 

 peculiarly loud and mellow call-notes, and many of them a song 

 of a few rich and liquid notes. The Orioles build shallow, saucer- 

 shaped nests, which they suspend by the rims from the forked 

 branches of trees, often at a considerable height. They lay four 

 or five eggs of a creamy white, spotted sparingly with dark brown 

 or black. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Entire head golden-yellow. 



a\ Outer tail-feather black at the base 0. galbula, p. 48. 



6 1 . Outer tail-feather entirely yellow 0. notatus, p. 50. 



b. Head black 0. larvatus, p. 51. 



Oriolus larvatus, 



(y 



20. Oriolus galbula. Golden Oriole. 



Oriolus galbula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 160 (1766) ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. 

 p. 135 (1867) ; Gurney in Andersson's B. Damara Land, p. 124 

 (1872) ; Dresser, B. Europe, iii, p. 365, pi. 144 (1875) ; Sliarpe, Cat. 

 B. M. iii, p. 191 (1877) ; id. ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. p. 411 (1884) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 41 (1896). 



Description. Adult male. Entire head and body golden yellow, 

 rather deeper on the breast ; a black streak from the eye to the base 

 of the bill ; wing-coverts black, the cubital coverts narrowly tipped 

 with yellow, the primary coverts broadly edged and tipped with 

 yellow ; quills black, the secondaries tipped with pale yellow ; 

 axillaries and under- wing- coverts golden yellow. Tail black, the 

 two centre feathers slightly tipped with yellow, which increases on 

 each succeeding feather until only the bases of the outer feathers 

 are black. 



